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Comment by robben12

2.01 Paragon - world first (25h)

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This heroic encounter features a few significant changes over its normal counterpart, broken up by each phase.

Phase 1Feludius and Ignacious retain all their abilities from normal and do not gain any new abilities, however many of their abilities are boosted. Primarily, letting Hydro Lance fire is very likely to lead to a raid death and Ignacious' shield absorbs significantly more damage.

The major change is that the two inactive lords assist their counterparts by tossing debuffs onto raid members. Terrastra will debuff a random non-tank with Gravity Core and Arion will debuff a random non-tank with Static Overload. As the debuffs state, they will pulse and afflict nearby players with secondary debuffs which drastically slow cast/move speed and deal moderate damage over time respectively. The primary debuffs have no duration and can only be removed by having the two players (one with each type of debuff) stand on top of each other, which causes both debuffs to drop after 1-3 seconds (always watch, lag may be a factor).

The goal here is to handle phase 1 normally but also while forced to spread out to avoid too much debuff spreading, which can be trickier than it sounds once you have fire and water bombs everywhere.

Phase 2Again this phase is largely the same except for interference by the two non-active lords. This time, Feludius will summon a frost orb that fixates on a player and chases them, slowly gaining speed in the process. Around the same time Ignacious will mark a target on the ground (very distinct visual) and soon afterwards spawn a flamestrike at that area. The person kiting the frost orb must get the orb to go inside the flamestrike, which will despawn both. Expect to have a frost orb and flamestrike up for about 50% of phase 2 total.

Phase 3This phase has the fewest changes but is the hardest simply because the challenge was already about burning the Monstrosity down in time, and now with significantly more health and more damage caused from his elemental abilities, killing him before being overwhelmed will require very precise positioning to not chain the lightning. The most marked change is that the ice patches he spawns underneath him grow much more rapidly while he stands in them, which is most noticeable when he channels his Gravity Crush and does not move for the duration. Good luck!